"2 September 2016 as a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh. It was originally announced that Bryan Dick would star as Kipps, however he later withdrew to appear in the West End production of ""Hobson's Choice"". It was later announced that newcomer Charlie Stemp would take over as Arthur Kipps alongside Devon-Elise Johnson as Ann Pornick, Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow, Emma Williams as Helen Walsingham and Vivien Parry as Mrs Walsingham. The production is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, designed by Paul Brown, choreographed by Andrew Wright, orchestrations by William David Brohn, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter and video design"
"Wales, in 1901. The couple had two sons: David William, born 31 March 1906, and Patrick Allason Holden, born 1 September 1908. David Heneker was a composer and lyricist of Charlie Girl. He was nominated for three Tony Awards: in 1961, as one of the authors of the English book and lyrics for Best Musical nominee ""Irma la Douce,"" and in 1965, as Best Composer and Lyricist and for music and lyrics of Best Musical nominee ""Half a Sixpence."" Patrick Allason Holden was a Captain in the 3rd Cavalry of the Indian Army; he died 29 August 1942 as a"
"1913 comedy ""Peg O' My Heart"", was less successful. David Heneker David Heneker (31 March 1906 – 30 January 2001) was a writer and composer of British popular music and musicals, best known for creating the music and lyrics for ""Half a Sixpence"". Heneker was born in Southsea, England, in March 1906, the eldest son of the Canadian-born Lieutenant Colonel William Heneker, a notable military strategist and tactician, who would later serve with distinction in World War I, rising to the rank of General. Educated at Wellington and Sandhurst, Heneker followed his father into a military career. He served as"
"Grahame's novel, opens at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in October 2016 before heading to The Lowry in Salford and London's West End. The book was written by Julian Fellowes who Stiles and Drewe previously worked with on ""Mary Poppins"" and ""Half a Sixpence"". The production will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (who also directed ""Half a Sixpence"") with set and costume design by Peter McKintosh and lighting design by Howard Harrison. Stiles and Drewe are founding members of Mercury Musical Developments (MMD), a charity devoted to nurturing new musical theatre in the United Kingdom. They have also written other revues"
"the time the crime was committed. It is also mentioned frequently in Stephen King's 1998 novel ""Bag of Bones"" and in passing in his 2015 novel ""Finders Keepers"". Ray Noble's 1932 dance band hit ""We've Got the Moon and Sixpence"", sung by Al Bowlly, takes its name from the book and Jack Kerouac mentions the book in his 1958 novella ""The Subterraneans"". Mario Vargas Llosa's 2003 novel ""The Way to Paradise"" is also based on Paul Gauguin's life. The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told"
"as the lead actor in Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of ""Half a Sixpence"", written by Julian Fellowes. He first performed the role at Chichester Festival Theatre from July to September 2016. In October 2016, the musical transferred to the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End, and extended its booking to 2 September 2017. For this role, Stemp won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Musical and was nominated for the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Stemp appeared on Broadway in the revival of ""Hello, Dolly!"", starting on January 20, 2018, officially"
"2014 it transferred to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre. The West End transfer received positive reviews from a number of national media outlets. The production ran for a limited season at the Shaftesbury Theatre, closing on 13 September 2014. The Pajama Game The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel ""7½ Cents"" by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where workers' demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise are going unheeded. In"
"""The Wind in the Willows"", a musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel, opened at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in October 2016 before heading to The Lowry in Salford and London's West End. The book was written by Julian Fellowes who Stiles and Drewe previously worked with on ""Mary Poppins"" and ""Half a Sixpence"". The production is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (who also directed ""Half a Sixpence"") with set and costume design by Peter McKintosh and lighting design by Howard Harrison. Independently, George is the composer of Moll Flanders (winner of Best Musical in the 1995 TMA Awards), Tom Jones (Theatre"
"The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is written largely from the point of view of the narrator, a young, aspiring writer and playwright in London. Certain"
"work with him and Monty Norman on the score of ""Expresso Bongo"", and, from that point on, Heneker turned his talents to the musical theatre, producing a series of West End hit shows. The same year, he contributed the English lyrics to the 1956 Marguerite Monnot French musical ""Irma La Douce"". The show transferred to Broadway two years later and was nominated for a Tony Award. After collaborating again with Norman on ""Make Me An Offer"" in 1959, Heneker saw his greatest West End triumphs with the full score to the Tommy Steele vehicle ""Half a Sixpence"" (1963) and a"
"away from the visual to the musical and emotional associations of words, and his linguistic erudition supplied another element for the construction of the language of Finnegans Wake.' An abridged version known as ""Humpty Dumpty"" has been recorded by: The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a song in book one of James Joyce's novel ""Finnegans Wake"" (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumour which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with"
"by Luke Halls. Following rave reviews in Chichester, the production transferred to the West End in London at the Noël Coward Theatre with previews beginning 29 October and press night on 17 November 2016. It featured the original Chichester cast and ran for ten months in the West End following three extensions to its limited run. Combined with the Chichester run, the production played around 400 performances. In 2018, Manchester Musical Youth were the first amateur theatre company to perform the Half A Sixpence revival. At Z-arts theatre, Stretford, the show had a very successful 4 day run in July"
"novel ""The Wind in the Willows"" was being worked on by Julian Fellowes with music and lyrics to be penned by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The trio first worked together on the musical ""Mary Poppins"". In November 2013, a Crowdfunding exercise was launched to raise ten percent of the shows £6.5m budget, with a view to opening the show in London in 2015. Ultimately more than 10% was raised by that means, totalling one million pounds. The trio are also reunited with director Rachel Kavanaugh who directed Half a Sixpence as well as directing Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan"
"in 1958, Tommy Steele in ""Half a Sixpence"" in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in ""Little Me"" in 1964 (334 performances), ""The Black Mikado"" (1975–76), and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical ""Chicago"" ran for 590 performances. More recently the 'rock'n'roll' musical ""Return to the Forbidden Planet"", which was based on Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, ""Miss Saigon"". The controversial show ""Jerry Springer - The Opera"" had a run from 14 October 2003 –"
"The Moon and Sixpence (film) The Moon and Sixpence is a 1942 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name. Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Geoffrey Wolfe (Herbert Marshall), a writer similar to Maugham, tells the story of Charles Strickland (George Sanders). A mediocre, seemingly unassuming London stockbroker, Strickland suddenly gives up his career, wife of 17 years (an uncredited Molly Lamont), and children and moves to Paris. Mrs. Strickland asks Wolfe to bring him back. To Wolfe's surprise, Strickland has not run away"
"Sing a Song of Sixpence ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as number 13191. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" (c. 1602), (Act II, Scene iii), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: ""Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song"" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's ""Bonduca"" (1614), which contains the line ""Whoa, here's a stir now! Sing a song o' sixpence!"" In the past it has often been attributed"
"David Heneker David Heneker (31 March 1906 – 30 January 2001) was a writer and composer of British popular music and musicals, best known for creating the music and lyrics for ""Half a Sixpence"". Heneker was born in Southsea, England, in March 1906, the eldest son of the Canadian-born Lieutenant Colonel William Heneker, a notable military strategist and tactician, who would later serve with distinction in World War I, rising to the rank of General. Educated at Wellington and Sandhurst, Heneker followed his father into a military career. He served as a cavalry officer in the British Army from 1925"
"to Val Fancourt, who is a classical music agent. In the late 1970s, Goodall was a member of the band Half Brother with his friend Jonathan Kermode. They produced an eponymous LP album, ""Half Brother"", in 1978. Goodall's 1984 musical ""The Hired Man"", an adaptation of the novel by Melvyn Bragg, won an Ivor Novello award (1985) and TMA Award (2006) award for Best Musical. Professional revivals of ""The Hired Man"" in recent years include a UK tour by the New Perspectives Theatre Company in 2008 and a production directed by David Thacker and Elizabeth Newman at the Octagon Theatre,"
"himself as a hotel keeper. The result is a satirical tale of tropical disaster. The novel takes place on the fictional island of Amerigo. According to the opening of the musical (a paraphrased excerpt from the novel): This book is said to be loosely based on Herman Wouk's experiences in managing an actual hotel, the Royal Mail Inn, in the early 1960s in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The hotel was on Hassel Island, located in Charlotte Amalie Harbour. The novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later, album by Jimmy Buffett in 1997. Buffett refers to the development"
"extremely black comedy, and close in tone to social realist drama. Both the character played by Tony Hancock in ""Hancock's Half Hour"" and Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) are pretentious, would-be intellectuals who find themselves trapped by the squalor of their lives. This theme had been expanded upon in their script for Tony Hancock's film ""The Rebel"" (1961), about a civil servant who moves to Paris to become an artist. Gabriel Chevallier's novel ""Clochemerle"" (1934) was adapted by Galton and Simpson as a BBC/West German co-production in 1972. They contributed the book to ""Jacob's Journey"", a musical accompaniment to a"
"featuring David Bedella, James Gillan, Leanne Jones, Amy Lennox and Michael Xavier was released in 2015. Three Billy Goats Gruff was commissioned by the Singapore Repertory Theatre and premiered there in 2015. Following the success of ""Mary Poppins"", Stiles and Drewe were reunited with producer Cameron Mackintosh and book writer Julian Fellowes to create a new musical version of ""Half a Sixpence"" based on the original musical, using the original songs by David Heneker. The production premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2016 before transferring to London's West End in October 2016. Commissioned by producer Jamie Hendry in 2011,"
"the much-married character Lady Counterblast had taken the lead role in during her acting career (in ""The Clissold Saga""). The play is also briefly mentioned in the 1967 adaptation of H.G. Wells's ""Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul"", ""Half a Sixpence"". While Kipps is closing the boutique in which he works, he is accosted by unsuccessful actor and playwright, Harry Chitterlow. Kipps explains that he has not ever seen a play after expressing his excitement at meeting an actor and Chitterlow, surprised, asks if he had ever seen The Second Mrs Tanqueray. Kipps humorously responds that he has not"
"the 1967 musical ""Half a Sixpence"" starring Tommy Steele and Julia Foster. In 1991 it was used as a backdrop for the band World Of Twist, on the cover of their debut album, Quality Street, with the group dressed in period costume. In 2007 it was used in a Christmas television advert for the Morrisons supermarket chain starring the singer Lulu. This caused some local grumbling because Morrisons had only recently closed their Tunbridge Wells store. Morrisons returned to the Pantiles for their 2009 Christmas advert starring Richard Hammond and Denise van Outen. The Pantiles The Pantiles is a Georgian"
"half of the Kingdom) as the basis for a new ballet to Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 2007 after a friend, the then-Royal Ballet principal, Ivan Putrov, asked Tennant if Pet Shop Boys would consider writing a piece of music for him to dance to at Sadler's Wells. Coincidentally a couple of days later, Lowe suggested to Tennant that ""The Most Incredible Thing"" would make an excellent narrative for a ballet and, inspired by this synchronicity, they approached Sadler's Wells with the project. The following year Javier de Frutos was chosen as the choreographer and Matthew Dunster wrote a"
"wanted something else."" The book was made into a stage play in 1925 at the New Theatre with Henry Ainley as Strickland and Eileen Sharp as Ata and a film of the same name directed and written by Albert Lewin. Released in 1942, the film stars George Sanders as Charles Strickland. The novel served as the basis for an opera, also titled ""The Moon and Sixpence"", by John Gardner to a libretto by Patrick Terry; it was premiered at Sadlers Wells in 1957. Writer S Lee Pogostin adapted it for American TV in 1959. This production starred Laurence Olivier, with"
"bad men good company. And Shakespeare takes that hurdle with magnificent ease."" What a Piece of Work What a Piece of Work is a 1999 verse novel by Australian poet Dorothy Porter which was shortlisted for the 2000 Miles Franklin Award. In an address to the Tasmanian Writers' and Readers' festival in August 1999, Porter stated: ""This is a verse novel in the voice of a male psychiatrist, Doctor Peter Cyren, working in Sydney's Callan Park Mental Hospital in the late 60s, who goes from pretty bad to heinous worse. My model here was Shakespeare with his black-hearted but full"
"the compensation to her — because he doesn't want to give a penny to Mrs Bardell's lawyers, the unscrupulous firm of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. The generally humorous tone is here briefly replaced by biting social satire (including satire of the legal establishment). This foreshadows major themes in Dickens's later books. Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller, and Weller Senior also appear in Dickens's serial, ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". The novel has been adapted to film, television, and radio: In 1985 BBC released a 12-part 350-minute miniseries starring Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide. According to Retrospect Opera, there was"
"Ankles Aweigh Ankles Aweigh is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis, lyrics by Dan Shapiro, and music by Sammy Fain. The plot involves Hollywood starlet Wynne, who secretly marries a Navy pilot while filming a movie in Sicily. She disguises herself as a sailor and stows away on his ship to grab a covert honeymoon. They get mixed up with an espionage ring. The original Broadway production ran for 176 performances in 1955 and lost money. By 1955, audiences had become accustomed to book musicals that seamlessly integrated dialogue scenes with musical numbers, so this"
"at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, starring Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William 'Fred' Parsons. The second version was written by Richard Greenberg for a 2013 Broadway production at the Cort Theatre, starring Emilia Clarke as Holly Golightly, Cory Michael Smith as Fred, and George Wendt as Joe Bell. The Greenberg play was produced in the UK in 2016, called ""a play with music"". It ran at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End in June to September 2016. Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in"
"of money from the house. When Katherine begins to hear voices from the well and becomes racked with guilt, Hester goes to extreme measures to maintain her influence over her young ward. In 1997, a film of the same name was adapted from this novel. The film was directed by Samantha Lang, from a screenplay by Laura Jones and featured Pamela Rabe and Miranda Otto. Middlemiss.org The Well (novel) The Well is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian-English author Elizabeth Jolley. It tells the story of two women, Hester and her young ward Katherine, and their relationship with one"
"Babe"" (1970) and a TV movie, ""The Fabulous Doctor Fable"" (1973). In 1982 he published a novel, ""Taurus"". He died at Newport Beach on 27 November 2000. His first wife, Ruth, died in 1987. He was survived by his second wife, Mary; two children; and three grandchildren. Along with co-writer Harry Tugend, Wells was nominated for the 1950 Writers Guild of America Award in the category of ""Best Written American Musical"" for ""Take Me Out to the Ball Game"". They lost to Betty Comden and Adolph Green, for ""On the Town"". He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay"
"1965 Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor (musical) for ""Half a Sixpence"". Other TV roles include George Batt in ""Mother Love"", based on the novel by Laura Black and starring Diana Rigg, David McCallum and James Wilby. Grout lived in Malmesbury in Wiltshire and contributed a weekly column to his local newspaper, the ""Wiltshire Gazette and Herald"". Grout was married to Noreen, whom he had known since his school days. He died on 24 June 2012, aged 84, at the Ashgrove Nursing Home in Purton after a long illness. James Grout James David Grout (22 October 1927 –"
"by Rhymefest. The film has earned $16,180,000 in rentals and $1,538,323 in DVD sales. Half Nelson (film) Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Fleck and Anna Boden. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. It was scored by Canadian band Broken Social Scene. Gosling was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The story concerns an inner city middle-school teacher who forms a friendship with one of his students after she discovers that he has a drug habit. The film is based on a"